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Friday, April 25, 2014

A-Z: Classic Monsters: V is for He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named

Well...I bet you thought I'd post on a Vampire, didn't you? Well, I thought about it and decided to feature a different monster for the letter V in today's A-Z Challenge post. I would say the moment J.K. Rowling's featured this character, he was deemed a classic monster--the Dark Lord...Voldemort.

Tom was a half-blooded wizard, who was born and raised in a Muggle Orphanage and then attended Howarts. Of course, he was sorted to the House of Slytherin which only made sense since he was heir to one of the founders of Hogwarts, Salazar Slytherin. Tom was an astute pupil and mastered wizardry like none other. Eventually, his true sadistic nature surfaced and then he turned to the Dark Arts which lead him to his Voldermort days.

For starters, the Harry Potter series books are classics. Without J.K. Rowling and her inventive mind, we would have never known the likes of something as iconic, evil and malicious as Voldemort (all that and he's just a wizard.) Voldemort was obsessed with power and living forever. He was a murderer, killing anyone or anything in his path. J.K. Rowling did a press conference back in 2005 where she answered questions about the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. One of the most interesting questions I found on Voldemort was this.

From Edward Hollet representing W H Smith: "If Voldemort ever encountered a boggart what would he see?" (Note: A boggart is an amortal shape-shifting non-being that takes on the form of the viewer's worst fear. )

J.K. Rowling's response:"The thing that Voldemort fears more than anything else is his own death. It its the quest of his life to cheat death, so we would have to see himself lying dead on the floor."

Would you consider Voldemort a classic monster? What other monsters where you thinking about?